Jiang says Dante's symbols combine Christian, pagan, Islamic, and Gnostic traditions into a single symbolic system.
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"...just the Christian tradition, but also the pagan tradition. Also the Islamic tradition, the Gnostic tradition. There's all sorts of traditions that he's combining..."
"...the world. Okay? In the Middle East, there's something called the Islamic Golden Age. Okay? Islam. Islamic Golden Age. In China and in Asia,..."
"...attempt this. This is being done throughout the world in the Islamic Golden Age. But again, at this time, Europe is extremely ignorant and..."
"...not only did he embrace poverty, but he went to the Islamic world and tried to convert the Sultan, okay? That is the exemplar..."
"...just the Christian tradition, but also the pagan tradition, also the Islamic tradition, the Gnostic tradition. There's all sorts of traditions. He's combining together..."
"...of the Al -Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in the Islamic world, which would lead to the War of Gog and Magog, which..."
"...this eschatological vision is that it also aligns with both the Islamic eschatology as well as the Orthodox eschatology, okay? This is important because..."
"...it seems to have a lot of similarities and overlaps with Islamic culture, except it seems to deify, I think, the country and ancestry...."
"...now taken is done to eliminate the regime of, of the Islamic Republic. And therefore, this is an existential war. Therefore, just go for..."
"If you just look at these extreme Islamic movements, including ISIS. Including the Wahhabists. They were clearly creations of the Anglo -American Empire. Clearly...."
"...so Moscow will. It will unite with the Iranians, which is Islamic. It will unite with the Islamic world. It will reconcile with the..."
"These 300 families were, on the surface, Islamic, but they were – they were still Jewish secretly. They practiced Judaism secretly. And over time,..."
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